Fonts

My current favorite font for programming is JetBrains Mono. I use it for VS Code and iTerm.

I use Fira Code for Sublime Text. And I love the default San Francisco Apple font for use in everything else.

Variable Fonts are neat. Glyphs app is great for designing fonts.

Interesting fonts

• Inter - Typeface specially designed for user interfaces with focus on high legibility of small-to-medium sized text on computer screens. (Web) (The story behind Inter) (HN)
• Anchor - Informal family of round display gothics, with a serious side. (Anchor in use: Charm)
• Albra
• Sigurd
• Graphik
• Filosofia
• Inconsolata (Code)
• Public Sans - Strong, neutral, principles-driven, open source typeface for text or display.
• Cascadia Code - Fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.
• Leon Sans - Geometric sans-serif typeface made with code in 2019 by Jongmin Kim.
• Codeface - Typefaces for source code beautification.
• JetBrains Mono - Typeface for Developers. (HN) (Code) (Lobsters)
• Iosevka - Slender typeface for code, from code. (HN) (Web)
• Victor Mono (Code)
• Noto - Font for all the world's languages.
• Cozette - Bitmap programming font optimized for coziness.
• Jost
• MonoLisa (HN)
• Recursive Sans & Mono - Variable font family for code & UI. (Code)
• Baudelaire - Modern transitional serif typeface.
• Fira Sans - Mozilla's new typeface, used in Firefox OS. (Code)
• Sohne
• Free variable writing fonts from iA
• Sparks - Typeface for creating sparklines in text without code.
• BLOKK - Gives you a nice fill text for mock-ups and wireframing without the lorem ipsum.
• Scunthorpe Sans - Self-censoring font. (HN)
• Amstelvar - Parametric variable font by David Berlow. (Code)
• Monaco
• Cardo
• Raleway
• Noway
• Entypo
• Space Grotesk - Florian Karsten Typefaces. (Code)
• Florian Karsten Typefaces
• PragmataPro - Coding font designed by Fabrizio Schiavi.
• OpenDyslexic - Typeface for Dyslexia. (HN)
• Moneta
• 3270font - Font for the Nostalgic. (HN)
• Last Resort - Special-purpose font that includes a collection of glyphs to represent types of Unicode characters. (HN)
• JuliaMono - Monospaced font for scientific and technical computing. (HN) (Code) (Article)
• Josefin Sans - Idea for creating this typeface was to make it geometric, elegant and kind of vintage, especially for titling.
• Titillium Web Variable Fonts
• Bungee - Chromatic signage typeface for vertical and horizontal setting. (Web)
• Quicksand
• Merriweather
• Bitmap fonts for humans
• Butler - Free serif font inspired by a mix between both Dala Floda & the amazing Bodoni family.
• Montserrat
• Libre Franklin
• Curves - Free font by Philippine Eevee.
• Roboto VF - Variable version of Roboto intended to be a 1:1 match with the official non-variable release from Google.
• Roboto Flex - Upgrades Roboto to become a more powerful Variable Font, allowing youu to do more to express and finesse your text.
• Roboto Serif
• Barlow - Slightly rounded, low-contrast, grotesk type family.
• IBM Plex typeface
• Monoid - Customisable coding font with alternates, ligatures and contextual positioning. Crazy crisp at 12px/9pt. (Code)
• League Mono - Monospace typeface inspired by Fira Mono, Libertinus Mono, and Courier. (Web)
• LiebeHeide - Amazingly real looking handwritten messages with LiebeHeide color font.
• Piazzolla font family (Code)
• Ellograph - Friendly monospaced typeface with a soft, rounded construction and striking cursive italics.
• Source Sans Pro - Set of OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well in user interface (UI) environments. (Code)
• Operator
• Consolas
• Comic Mono - Legible monospace font. (Code) (HN)
• Datalegreya - Typeface which can interweave data curves with text. (HN) (Code)
• Leland - SMuFL-compliant OpenType music font.
• Commuters Sans
• wavefont - Typeface for rendering data: waveforms, spectrums, diagrams, bars etc.
• Writer - Version of iA Writer Mono with increased letter-spacing and tuned weights.
• Proxima Vara
• Fabbrica - Sans serif typeface inspired by the industrial production world.
• BLOKK - Font for quick mock-ups and wireframing for clients.
• Fog City Gothic
• Gridlite
• Pretendard (Code)
• Basement Grotesque - Inspired by the expressiveness of early 19th-century grotesque typefaces. (Code)
• Redaction - Typeface from Titus Kaphar / Reginald Dwayne Betts’ show at MoMA PS1.
• Dank Mono - Coding typeface for aesthetes.
• scientifica - Tall, condensed, bitmap font for geeks.
• Cal Sans - Geometric sanserif tuned for display, that is, large point sizes.
• Tilt - Family of type inspired by the dimensional lettering found in storefront signage.
• Outfit Fonts
• Lora Fonts - Well-balanced contemporary serif with roots in calligraphy.
• Chomsky - Font in the style of the New York Times masthead.
• National Park Typeface
• Klee - Script font handwritten by pencil or pen.
• Inria Sans and Inria Serif (Web)
• Manrope - Modern geometric sans-serif. (Code)
• Brutalita - Grid based font editor and font. (HN) (Code)
• Agave - Small, monospaced, outline font that would be geometrically regular and simple. (Code)
• Readex - Variable font empirically shown to significantly improve reading-proficiency.
• Routed Gothic Font
• Monego - Beloved Monaco monospaced font, recreated with bold and italic variants.
• Newsreader - Original typeface designed by Production Type, primarily intended for continuous on-screen reading in content-rich environments.
• Berkeley Mono Typeface (Lobsters)
• Input Fonts - Flexible system of fonts designed specifically for code by David Jonathan Ross.
• Urbanist - Low-contrast, geometric sans-serif inspired by Modernist design and typography.
• Morisawa BIZ UDGothic - UD Gothic typeface with excellent readability and design balance.
• SORA
• Berkeley Mono Typeface
• Martian Mono - Free and open-source monospaced font from Evil Martians.
• SFMono Square - Based on SF Mono, and added glyphs for Japanese & patched for Nerd Fonts.
• Sono - Soft monospace variable font.
• Familjen Grotesk - Sans serif typeface with a contemporary appearance intended for both text and display.
• Arima Font Family
• SF Pro (Tweet)
• Type With Pride: Gilbert Font Project
• Commissioner - Variable and static sans typeface.
• Kontinentalist
• mononoki - Font for programming and code review. (Code)
• Apfel Grotezk (Tweet)
• undefined medium - Free and open-source pixel grid-based monospace typeface. (Code)
• Magnat Poster fonts (Tweet)
• Approach - Modern approximation to the early grotesques.
• Figtree - Friendly, simple geometric sans serif font.
• Inter Tight - Specialized version of Inter with tighter spacing.
• Jost - Original font created by indestructible type.
• Virgil - Font that powers Excalidraw. (Web)
• Martian Grotesk

Links

• Typewolf - What's trending in type. (Site of the day)
• Google Fonts (Code)
• Programming Fonts - Test drive over 50 free programming fonts. (HN)
• Guide to Only the Best Open-Source Typefaces (Code)
• Inter typeface family
• Google Noto Fonts
• The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
• Fabrizio Schiavi - Multidisciplinary designer with skill in typography.
• Rubrication Design Examples
• Google Web Fonts Helper - Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. (Code)
• 50 free handwriting fonts (2020)
• Crafting the Airbnb Cereal Typeface (2018)
• Visual Overview of Typography
• Thinking With Type - Book on Typography.
• The Raster Tragegy and Low Resolution
• FontGoggles - Font viewer for various font formats. It is a desktop application for macOS. (Code)
• I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn't Believe What Happened Next - Marcin Wichary (2020)
• Variable Fonts Primer (Code)
• sfsymbols - Export the shapes in the SF Symbols font.
• Fonts In Use - Independent archive of typography.
• Awesome Typography
• Type Specimens
• Type Studies
• Practical Typography (HN)
• Showcase of OpenType Features (Code)
• monospacifier.py - Great way to increase the Unicode coverage of your favorite programming font.
• Chrome Detect Font - Easily see which fonts are in use.
• Font Bakery - Command-line tool for checking the quality of font projects.
• Typelab - Type design service offering design software and bespoke type design for diverse clients.
• OH no Type - Oakland based type foundry.
• An Introduction to Variable Fonts (2019)
• Variable Fonts - Simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts. (Twitter)
• Variable Emojis
• YouTube Sans: The Making of a Typeface (2020)
• Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers (2020) (HN)
• The best totally free web fonts & typefaces (2020)
• Samsa - Variable font inspector. (Code)
• Axis-Praxis - Website for playing with OpenType Variable Fonts
• TinySDF - Browser-side SDF font generator. (Code)
• From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography (2017)
• The Future of Text: 2020 Vision Book (PDF)
• Future Of Text Initiative
• How to pick different font sizes that look good together
• Font Picker - Font selector component for Google Fonts.
• Advice on improving typesetting on websites
• xz/fonts - Break your users from unethical tracking networks. xz/fonts delivers exclusively open-source fonts through Vercel's impossibly fast CDN. (Code)
• Text for Proofing Fonts
• The Fastest Google Fonts (2020) (HN)
• Jaimey Shapey's typography
• Zach Leatherman | The Five Whys of Web Font Loading Performance (2018)
• Pop Culture Typography (2018)
• Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO)
• Typography.js - Powerful toolkit for building websites with beautiful design.
• Awesome Mac OS Catalina fonts you didn’t know you had access to (2020)
• ttf-parser - High-level, safe, zero-allocation TrueType font parser. Can be used as Rust and as C library.
• FontEdit - Desktop app to import, edit and export fonts as byte arrays for use in embedded systems. (HN)
• Open Sauce Fonts - Font super family that I developed for Creative Sauce's internal type system.
• Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (HN)
• Python+FontForge+Org: I made a font based on my handwriting! (2020)
• What’s In A Font? Researching Website Typography (2020)
• font-kit - Cross-platform font loading library written in Rust.
• Helvetica - Documentary on typography, graphic design and global visual culture. (HN)
• Local Font Access Explained - Web API for enumerating fonts on the local system.
• HarfBuzz - Text shaping library. (Web) (Tweet)
• rustybuzz - Incremental harfbuzz port to Rust.
• Font Stash - Light-weight online font texture atlas builder.
• Grammar of Typography: Classical Design in the Digital Age
• Introducing Fontcase (2020)
• Webfont Handbook - From selection to optimization, learn how to make the web a more visually diverse, efficient, and readable environment.
• Runebender - Font editor written in Rust.
• Why not just use bitmap fonts? (2020) (Lobsters)
• Wikimedia FontCDN - Anonymizing, privacy-first reverse proxy to Google Fonts. (HN)
• 99 Font Pairings & Typeface Combinations
• Capsize - Flipping how we define typography in CSS. (Code)
• Embedded Google Fonts (Code)
• Once Upon a Type
• Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting (2020) - How an emerging CSS standard can fix old problems and raise the bar for web apps.
• Cap height - Calculate the cap height of fonts loaded with Web Font Loader.
• Use advanced typography with local fonts (2020)
• Signifier design information (2020)
• ztext.js - 3D Typography for the Web.
• Did You Know Fonts Could Do All This? (2020) (Lobsters)
• macOS-like fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux (2020) (HN)
• When fonts fall (2020) (HN)
• Design Class – Web Typography
• typespiration.com - Showcase of web typography designs with ready-to-use CSS codes.
• Fontsource - Updating monorepo full of self-hostable Open Source fonts bundled into individual NPM packages. (Web)
• Beautiful and Effective Web Typography: An Interview with Richard Rutter (2020)
• Web Font Loader - Gives you added control when using linked fonts via @font-face.
• Font Variation Description - Compact and unambiguous way to describe a font in CSS.
• Adobe Fonts - Quality fonts at your fingertips.
• Font engineering tools - Collection of font engineering utilities.
• Type Thursday - Global type superfamily converges monthly to help one another improve our letterforms over drinks.
• Font of the Month Club - Get a fresh new font delivered to your inbox every single month.
• Coding Fonts - Microsite that shows off fonts designed for writing code. (Code)
• The good line-height - Create a type scale following an 8 point baseline grid, or any grid.
• Type Scale - Visual Type Scale Calculator. (Code)
• Site-Speed Topography (2020)
• Monotype - Font & Technology Specialists.
• Black Foundry - Combining design and technology, we create fonts that perform.
• TypeMedia - MA in Type Design at the KABK.
• Arrow Type - Design & development for modern typography.
• Typographist
• Fontello - Icon fonts generator. (Code)
• lv_font_conv - Converts TTF/WOFF fonts to compact bitmap format.
• Typogram - Create nice-looking, minimalistic graphics that focus on a short snippet of text for sharing on the web. (Code)
• [Tips for making variable fonts](https://github.com/scribbletone/i-can-variable-Index of typefaces created by authors associated with Poland.font)
• Scaling custom fonts automatically with Dynamic Type (2020)
• Dev Fonts - List of fonts for coding. (Code) (HN)
• The League of Moveable Type - First open-source font foundry. (GitHub)
• Learn Typography
• Fontship - Toolkit for generating fonts and tooling for a collaborative workflow.
• fontTools - Library for manipulating fonts, written in Python.
• font-line - OpenType vertical metrics reporting and font line spacing adjustment tool.
• Ligaturizer - Add ligatures to any coding font.
• LiebeFonts - Hand-Made Fonts With Lots of Love.
• Time to Say Goodbye to Google Fonts (2020) (HN)
• Huerta Tipografica - Independent Type foundry. (GitHub)
• ufo2ft - Generate OpenType font binaries from UFOs without the FDK dependency.
• fontmake - Compile fonts from sources (UFO, Glyphs) to binary (OpenType, TrueType).
• OpenType Sanitizer - Parses and serializes OpenType files (OTF, TTF) and WOFF and WOFF2 font files, validating them and sanitizing them as it goes.
• Fontkit - Advanced font engine for Node and the browser, used by PDFKit.
• Connary Fagen - Type design studio and foundry.
• OpenType shaping documents - Documentation of OpenType shaping behavior.
• Kerning and letterspacing research
• Allsorts - Font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter for OpenType, WOFF, and WOFF2 implemented in Rust.
• Allsorts Tools - Example tools for the Allsorts font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter.
• Transfonter - Online @font-face generator.
• The hyperbezier pen tool - Introduces a new model for a path drawing (pen) tool, with a particular focus on font design.
• Fontdue - Fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust.
• fontpreview - Python library for font previews.
• Typeset - HTML pre-processor for web typography.
• glyphhanger - Web font utility belt. It can subset web fonts. It can show you what unicode-ranges are used on a web site (optionally per font-family.
• Web Fonts in 2021
• My favorite typefaces of 2020
• I love Typography (Fonts) (Twitter)
• VE Font Cache - Single header-only GPU font rendering library designed for game engines.
• System Font CSS - Use the native system font of the OS running the browser. (Web)
• ab-glyph - Rust API for loading, scaling, positioning and rasterizing OpenType font glyphs.
• Dharma Type
• System Font Stack (Code) (HN)
• Uniwidth typefaces for interface design (2021)
• Operator Mono Ligatures - Add ligatures to Operator Mono similar to Fira Code.
• Stop Using Icon Fonts (2021) (HN)
• WhatTheFont - Instant font identification.
• Font Remix (A Metadesign)
• Typoteka - Index of typefaces created by authors associated with Poland.
• The Best Font Loading Strategies and How to Execute Them (2021)
• Why does typography matter?
• Grid Systems in Graphic Design Book
• Continuous Typography (2020)
• Fontshare - Free fonts service.
• Glyphs - Mac font editor that puts you in control. (Twitter)
• Glyphs Python Scripts
• Let’s fix font size (2021) (HN) (Lobsters)
• Free Font Alternatives: The Ultimate Guide (2021)
• Fontjoy - Generate font pairings in one click. (Reddit)
• UNCUT - Open source typeface catalogue, focusing on somewhat contemporary type.
• PSTL - Digital Type Lab.
• Intrinsic Typography is the Future of Styling Text on the Web (2021)
• What I learned from studying fonts of top 1000 sites (2021)
• Swash - Font introspection, complex text shaping and glyph rendering.
• Demo for the swash crate
• Components AI - Typefaces - Collection of Google Fonts typeface packages for three.js/react-three-fiber.
• NaNGlyphFilters - Generative Fonts & Scripts. (Code)
• More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web (Lobsters)
• Using Computer Modern on the web
• Ask HN: What are the best typography talks? (2021)
• Learning a Manifold of Fonts
• 5 steps to faster web fonts (2021)
• Open source beautiful fonts (2021)
• Awesome OSS Fonts
• OpenType - Parser for OpenType fonts.
• nanoemoji - Wee tool to build color fonts.
• font - Collection of Go packages for parsing and encoding OpenType fonts.
• fontpreview - Highly customizable and minimal font previewer written in bash.
• Bryan Font (2021)
• Coding with Character (2021)
• Typeheist - Independent font foundry focusing on hand-lettered, realistic fonts.
• Helvetica Now Variable (HN)
• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - Practical guide to web typography.
• opentype.js - JavaScript parser and writer for TrueType and OpenType fonts. (Web)
• Improving My Website's Typography (2021)
• Blaze Type (Twitter)
• Lipi - Font independent text analysis support for shaping and layout.
• Twenty Bits I Learned About Making Fonts Book
• Typography of 2001: A Space Odyssey (2014) (HN)
• OSP-foundry - All fonts produced by OSP.
• Examples of the letter ‘B’ through history
• #calligraphy - Twitter
• Process Type Foundry (Twitter)
• Practica Program - Learn typeface design, together. (Twitter)
• Coding Font - Game to find your favorite coding font. (HN) (Lobsters)
• Nice, modern font stack that you recommend? (2021)
• Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012) (HN)
• Modular Font Editor K (MFEK) - Open source modular font editor. (GitHub)
• San Francisco Pro Fonts (Code)
• Colophon (Tweet)
• font vectors
• Fonts Knowledge - Google Fonts
• Gutenberg - Flexible and simple-to-use web typography starter kit for web designers and developers. (Web)
• OTF/WOFF/WOFF2 Converter (Code)
• fontstash-es - Text rendering and text shaping for OpenGL ES.
• React Awesome Typography - Typescript react component to align words visually and replaces typical misspellings every typographer hates.
• SVG to Font - Read a set of SVG icons and output a TTF/EOT/WOFF/WOFF2/SVG font.
• font-ligatures - Find ligature replacements for any system font.
• Brik Font: Creating Type with Lego
• pinot - Fast, high-fidelity OpenType parser.
• Google Font to SVG Path (Code)
• The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596) (HN)
• Hyperglot - Database and tools for detecting language support in fonts.
• Liga - Add ligatures to any programming font.
• font-install - Cross-platform font installer.
• What if text was more expressive?
• How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts (2021 (HN)
• Type-X - Test your fonts across the web by easily overriding fonts on any webpage.
• In defense of user-defined web fonts (2022) (HN)
• fontvuer - Cross platform font viewer. (Code)
• Fontanello - Browser extension for Google Chrome and Firefox that lets you display the basic typographic styles of a text by right-clicking it. (Code)
• font-kit - Provides a common interface to the various system font libraries and provides services such as finding fonts on the system, performing nearest-font matching, and rasterizing glyphs.
• fontdb - Simple, in-memory font database with CSS-like queries.
• Text Rendering Hates You (2019) (HN)
• Production Type - Digital type design agency. (GitHub)
• Numderline - Font patcher that uses OpenType font shaping trickery to make it easier to visually parse large numbers. (Web)
• Exploring OpenType Font Features (2022)
• A Smart Blackletter Font: 7 Questions for Gerrit Ansmann (2016)
• Typography.Guru
• subfont - Command line tool to optimize your webfont loading. Aggressive subsetting based on your font use, self-hosting of Google fonts and preloading.
• font-toolkit - Rust font loading, positioning and rendering toolkit.
• Typography is impossible (2016) - Practical guide to why laying out type never quite does what you want.
• How to Improve Your Static Site's Typography (2022)
• ot-builder - TypeScript library that manipulates OpenType fonts.
• Google Fonts Complete - Complete list of Google Web Fonts and their sources.
• Coldtype - Cross-platform display typography in python.
• Font Dimensions - Visualize dimensions of a variable font in the browser. (Code)
• Design With FontForge - Book about how to design new typefaces with FontForge. (Code)
• Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer (2022) (HN)
• python-fontbro - Friendly font operations on top of fontTools.
• Occlusion Grotesque Experimental Typeface (2021) (HN) (Lobsters)
• Roboto but Make It Flex (2022) (HN)
• Yep, I created the new Avatar font (HN)
• Introduction to variable fonts on the web (2022)
• GPU-Centered Font Rendering Directly from Glyph Outlines (2017)
• MkFont - Free tool to create & export fonts from existing assets. (Docs)
• Customizing Color Fonts on the Web (2022)
• font-rs - Font renderer written (mostly) in pure, safe Rust. There is an optional SIMD module for cumulative sum, currently written in C SSE3 intrinsics.
• Learn the Logic of Great Typography (HN)
• ttf2mesh - Standalone library for TrueType font tessellation. Allows to load ttf-file and convert its glyphs to 2D or 3D mesh objects without rasterization.
• Tips on designing monospace font
• Rust Font Tools - Collection of Rust crates for building OpenType fonts.
• Bunny Fonts - Faster & GDPR friendly Fonts. (HN)
• Internet Archive scans of logotype books
• Emtype Foundry
• Discrete Typography Tool - Understand and generate x-height and cap-height in CSS.
• Fluid Typography and Layouts with Andy Bell (2022)
• Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal? (2022)
• Google Fonts Tools - Misc tools for working with the Google Fonts library.
• Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases | Warp (2022) (HN)
• Getfonts - Extract and meaningfully name fonts from Apple TTC (TrueType Collection) files.
• What's a good typeface other than Inter? (2022)